cassiope

American  

[kuh-sahy-uh-pee] / kəˈsaɪ əˌpi /

noun

1. (sometimes initial capital letter) any evergreen shrub belonging to the genus Cassiope, of the heath family, having nodding white or pinkish solitary flowers and scalelike or needlelike leaves.

2. (initial capital letter) Cassiopeia.

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Etymology

Origin of cassiope

< New Latin, Latin < Greek Kassiópē Cassiopeia

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Example Sentences

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cassiope

Of these cassiope is at once the commonest and the most beautiful and influential.

From Travels in Alaska by John Muir

In fact, there was quite a border of sod all about where the ice had been, and a great mat of white-belled cassiope in the middle.

From The Basket Woman A Book of Indian Tales for Children by Mary Hunter Austin

On the banks of the river and its tributaries cassiope and bryanthus may be found, where the sod curls over stream banks and around boulders.

From The Yosemite by John Muir

The lower are mostly alder bushes and the topmost a lavish profusion of flowering plants, chiefly cassiope, vaccinium, pyrola, erigeron, gentiana, campanula, anemone, larkspur, and columbine, with a few grasses and ferns.

From Travels in Alaska by John Muir

Here, too, in this so-called "land of desolation," I met cassiope, growing in fringes among the battered rocks.

From The Mountains of California by John Muir

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